Hydrolight cabinet



Oct. 231 1924. 1,512,067.

H. J. THOMSEN HYDROLIGHT CAB I NET Filed Sent. 2, I922 3 Sheets-Sheet l t J//J \44/ i Oct. 21 1924. 1,512,067

, H. J. THOMSEN HYDROLIGHT CABINET Filed Sent. 2, I922 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 affozucq Oct. 21 1924. 1,512,067

H. J. THOMSEN HYDROLIGHT CABINET Filed Sent. 2, I922 3 Sheets-Sheet 3- l atented Oct. 21, 1924.

UNITED STATES HANS J. THOMSEN, OF NEOSHO, MISSOURI.

HYDROLIGHT CABINET.

Application filed September 2, 1922.

T 0 all whom itma concern.

Be it known that I, HANs J. THoMsnN, a citizen of the United States, residin at Neosho, in the county of Newton and tate of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Hydrolight Cabinet, of which the followlng is a specification.

This invention aims to provide a cabinet wherein a patient ma take an electric light bath, or a shower bath, the construction being such that the body of the patient may be exposed directly to the rays of light, it being possible to house in the lamps which produce the light, when it is desired to use the structure as a shower bath.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

With the above, and other objects in View, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, within the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows in elevation, a device constructed in accordance with the invention; Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section; Figure 3 is a cross section on the line 33 of Figure 2; Fi re 4 is a cross section on the line 4-4 of igure 2.

The device forming the subject matter of this application includes a cabinet comprising a base 1 embodying a rear wall 2, side walls 3 and 4 and a front 5 having an opening 6. A bottom 7 extends between the walls 2, 3, 4 and 5 and is downwardly inclined to a drainage opening 8 controlled by a movable screen 9. A door 10 constitutes a closure for the opening 6 and is hinged at 11 to the front wall 5, for horizontal swinging movement.

Hollow posts 12 are located in abutment with the front wall 5, hollow posts 14 being located adjacent to the angles defined by the walls 3 and 2, and by the walls 2 and 4. A platform 15 extends around three sides of the cabinet and forms a top for the base 1, the posts 12 and 14 extending upwardly through the platform, the platform being supported on the walls 3, 2, 4 and 5. Inner Serial No. 585,919.

stri s 16 extend between the posts 12 and the wal s 3 and 4, outer strips 17 likewise extending between the walls and the posts, the strips 16 and 17 cooperating to define vertical passages 18. Inner strips 19 and outer strips 20 extend between the posts 14 and the walls 3 and 4, and form vertical passages 21. Inner strips 22 and outer strips 23 extend between the posts 14 and the wall 2 and form vertical passages 24. Lower members 25 project inwardly from the walls 2, 3 and 4, and are located between the strips 17--20, 23-23 and 20--17, the lower members 25 being supported on brackets-26 carried by the lower portions of the walls 3, 2 and 4. Top members 27 extend between the walls 2, 3 and 4, on the one hand, and the platform 15. Reflectors 28, which may be mirrors are mounted in the door 10, the walls 3, 2 and 4, and on the members 25 and 27. The cabinet may be constructed in any desired way as to mechanical details, but generally considered, it embodies a central compartment 29 and side compartments 30, the side compartments being lined by certain of the mirrors 28 as hereinbefore explained. Electric lamps 31 are carried by the elements 17, 20, and 23, and extend into the side compartments 30. The conductors 32 for the lamps 31 may be extended through the passages 18, 24 and 21, to a switch 33 disposed on the front wall 5, assuming that the device is to be manipulated by an operator rather than by the patient. If it is desired that the patient shall operate the device, then the switch 33 may be located elsewhere than in the position shown in the drawings.

Vertically movable closures 34 for the side compartments 30 are provided, these closures preferably being in the form of sashes carrying transparent panes 35, the closures being guided for vertical reciprocation, as indicated at 36 on the posts 12 and 14. Sash cords 37 may be connected to the closures 34, the cords passing u wardly over sheaves 38 on the posts 12 an 14 and extending from thence downwardly within the posts 12 and 14, counter weights 39 being connected to the lower ends of the cords and being located in the posts 12 and 14.

The upper portion 40 of the cabinet comprises a top 41 supported on the posts 12 and 14 and fixed closures 42 in the form of sashes, extended between the posts 12 and 14, and between the posts 14, the sashes carrying A water conduit 48 extends within the upper portion of the cabinet and carrles a spray head 49, the conduit leading to a mixing valve 50, located on the front wall 5 or elsewhere, pipes 51 leading to the mixing valve, the pipes being adapted, one for the delivery of cold water, and the other for the delivery of hot water.

In ractical operation, the atlent may be seate in the base 1 of the ca inet, the neck of the patient extending through the open ing 47 in the foldable members 44, the same being disposed in the horizontal positlon 1ndicated in Figure 2 of the drawings. The sashes 34 are raised, and when the lamps 31 are lighted, the light will be reflected by the mirrors 28 directly on the body of the pa- 2 tient. When it is desired to take a shower bath, the closures 34 are pulled downwardly and, then, the water proceeding from the spray head49 cannot find way 1nto the side compartments 30 wherem the lamps 31 are located. When a spray bath is taken, the members 44 are swung upwardly into a vertical position.

. What is claimed is 1. In a device of the class described, a cabinet comprising a base and an upper chamber, the base and the upper chamber being open on the same side of the cabinet,

' a closure mounted to swing on the base and adapted to close said open side of the base,

the base being provided with internal com- 'partments extended around the base from means for discharging water into the upper chamber.

2. A bath cabinet comprising a base embodying a rear wall, side walls, and a front having an opening, a door controlling the opening, front posts located close to the front wall, rear posts spaced inwardly from the rear wall and the sides, sashes disposed parallel to the sides, and cooperating with the sides to form lamp compartments, a sash disposed parallel to the back and cooperating with the back to form a lamp compartment, the sashes being slidable on the posts, a platform forming an upper closure for the compartments, the posts extending upwardly above the platform, a top, sides and a back assembled with the posts and forming an upper chamber which is open at the front, above the door and means for separating the base of'the cabinet from the chamber, said means having an opening for the reception ofa part of the body of a bather.

3. A device of the class described, coir structed asset forth in claim 2 and further characterized by means for connecting the sashes so that they will move as one piece,

one of the posts being hollow and a weight being slidable in the hollow post, and a flexible element slidably guided intermediate its ends and connected at its ends to the weight and to one sash.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HANS J. THOMSEN. Witnesses: NORA B. SMITH,

L. P. KELLY. 

